Lillia Build Guide by Daromius

Lillia in my opinion is a very fun champ themathically and gameplay-wise, ever since her release I've been wanting to bring that playstyle to botlane, and with the new items, it's actually viable!

Zooming around the rift, placing wards, healing teammates, sleeping enemies, whats not to love?

When you're playing Lillia, kiting is the most important part of your performance, she doesn't have any built in sustain, or shields, and her early armour is rather low (20 without runes) and that's where her Blooming Blows's passive comes into place, you have to make use of your high movement speed to dodge poke, hooks, and apply procs of any sort ( Dream-Laden Bough, Moonstone Renewer, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, etc).

• You dont have to hit Swirlseed directly, most botlaners tend to hide behind minions, but Lillia's Swirlseed does a cone splash once it hits anything (minions included), use this to your advantage
• Whenever you hit an ability, it also procs your passive, which means you get 2 spellthief procs with a single Blooming Blows/ Watch Out! Eep!/ Swirlseed, so make sure you have 2 or more charges to be mana-efficient
• Remember that your Swirlseed keeps rolling until it hits something, so get creative, throw it from river to river, from base to lane, and who knows, might hit someone with it, and since your ult has unlimited range, it can lead to a kill, just be careful to not steal cs!

Lillia starts with either Spellthief's Edge or Relic Shield depending on the matchup and the usual two Health Potion.

After first back she gets Bandleglass Mirror, if you don't have enough gold at that point, you get a Faerie Charm and Boots.

Depending on your needs, your Bandleglass Mirror turns into either Moonstone Renewer or Shurelya's Battlesong.

Generally I get Mercury's Treads since CC is very punishing on Lillia, otherwise I go Boots of Swiftness or Plated Steelcaps if needed.

for a third item (generally the last one you'll get with your support income), you can go either Dead Man's Plate (movement speed, armor and hp) or Demonic Embrace, which gives extra damage, hp and 2 extra moonstone procs if you hit a long distance Swirlseed or Staff of Flowing Water since it gives all the stats Lillia and her team can use well (movement speed, ap and extra healing).

Some of your other options are:

Mikael's Blessing, Redemption, Warmog's Armor, Randuin's Omen, Zhonya's Hourglass Rylai's Crystal Scepter (Or any other of the third items you missed)

When you're full build, I highly suggest to exchange your boots for another legendary item, since Dead Man's Plate Gives you enough movement speed along with your Blooming Blows's passive ans possibly Cosmic Drive.

Choosing between Moonstone Renewer and Shurelya's Battlesong will always require some analysis.

Do you have a tanky frontline? long/extended fights? poke but no burst? go Moonstone Renewer.

Enemy composition has deadly ult combos? or for some reason you have a vayne top and a lucian mid? in that case, go Shurelya's Battlesong to decrease the chances of you or your team getting caught when rotating or disengaging from an objective.